[libvirt] Unable to open virt-manager

[Doron Fediuck]

On Tuesday 23 March 2010 21:53:04 Cole Robinson wrote:
> On 03/23/2010 12:12 PM, Doron Fediuck wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm trying to work remotely on a server with F12, using vnc.
> > When I start virt-manager, I do not get the authentication popup, and instead I get this message:
> > 
> > Unable to open connection to hypervisor URI 'qemu:///system':
> > authentication failed
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 872, in _try_open
> >     None], flags)
> >   File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 102, in openAuth
> >     if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenAuth() failed')
> > libvirtError: authentication failed
> > 
> 
> Are you running virt-manager over VNC? There were problems like this in
> the past, since VNC isn't a full desktop session, PolicyKit doesn't run.
> 
> Other then that, not sure what could be wrong.
> 
> - Cole
> 
I wasn't aware of problems in VNC.
So is there a work around ? How can I work remotely, if VM networking is local (ie- NAT) ?